RE: “What has changed in a year?” [Viewpoint, July 31]:
Leading Vermont scientists, educators, and journalists disagree strongly with Governor Peter Shumlin's claim that birds, bats, and bears are expendable in the effort to keep the planet safe.
Peak Keepers recorded a roundtable discussion in December, moderated by Tom Slayton, and a second roundtable discussion was recorded recently.
Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
BRATTLEBORO-The recent eclipse that Vermonters were able to experience was beyond breathtaking. My husband and...
PUTNEY-As a physician and a hospice volunteer, I read with interest the recent article highlighting...
BELLOWS FALLS-I see as a huge problem the number of apartments and houses being used...
Good day to you! We're having a slow start to spring this year as a trough in the east has caused a return to unseasonably cool conditions, which brought some recent frosts and even snow showers to southeastern Vermont. While there are signs of at least a brief warm up by the middle of next week, we have another several days of cooler-than-average conditions to get through, including the potential for a rather rainy Mother's Day 2017. So let's jump...
Given the shameful history of sexual abuse, coverups and retaliation in our society, it is perhaps understandable that there was a certain amount of distrust in how the Windham Southeast School district board would handle the allegations revealed in Mindy Haskins Rogers' report of sexual abuse, including statutory rape, at Brattleboro Union High School [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11, 2021]. Ms. Haskins Rogers noted that “The evidence seems damning, yet [Robert “Zeke” Hecker] was protected by supervisors, colleagues, and...
Westminster West resident Jessie Haas will virtually visit Village Square Booksellers on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11 a.m., to discuss her newest horse novel The Hungry Place. In this horse adventure - described in a news release as “perfect for fans of Black Beauty” - a Connemara pony, is pampered and beloved, then abused and neglected, until a 12-year-old girl brings love to her again. The pony, Princess, lives a charmed life of brown sugar cubes, crunchy apples, sweet grass,
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